David Gauntlett’s Twin(?) Peaks
In Week 3 included in our readings was a Video of David Gauntlett. Gauntlett in the video was going over the main points of his book Making Media Studies. David Gauntlett makes his points and opinion on how Courses can…
Sufjan Stevens and Sound
I have never thought much about sound. I enjoy sound. I love podcasts. I enjoy listening to storytellers. I enjoy music. I love musicals. Yet have never thought deeply about it. From a technical perspective, I know very little about…
Sounds I hate v. Sounds I love
In this week’s lecture and reading the topic was sound. One of the suggested blog entries was to talk about the sounds we hate and why we hate them. As well as the ones we love. While thinking about this I…
PB2: Media Self Portrait
https://vimeo.com/159785607 For this self-portrait, I decided to veer away from the artefacts I used previously in PB1. I chose not to use them as I feel like they would not have been able to form a cohesive concept. I also…
SXSW: President Obama on Media and the Government.
SXSW (South By Southwest) for those who don’t know is a yearly media orientated festival in Austin, Texas. This year the keynote speaker at the festival was President Barack Obama (watch the video HERE). The President spoke about many of…
Haiku Exercise
Last week in Media 1 we were given an exercise to create a video. In the video we were to use video clips we had taken in class, a piece of music provided, and a haiku either written within the…
Networked Media Exercise: Multimedia on my blog
Today’s exercise is to upload media (video, audio, or photos) to my blog and discuss how they add to the theme. As I’ve already uploaded media in all of the above forms to this blog I want to focus on…
Lecture Week 2: The Edit
As we did not have a lecture today I thought I’d reflect on last week’s lecture. The first part of the lecture focused on the edit, the history of and the purpose of. The lecture took us through a couple…
Women’s History Month: The Queen of Code
As I stated in my last post I am giving coding a try. One of the things that sparked my interest in coding was Gillian Jacobs The Queen of Code documentary (click here to watch via vimeo). The Queen of Code…
A New Definition of Literate.
Networked Media : Week 2 In the reading and the lecture for Networked Media the idea of being ‘literate’ was widely discussed. When I think about literacy I immediately think of print literacy and the ability to read. Though just…
